in or out in the forecast storm ?

Mr Moses will be in - he doesn't do wind or rain and certainley not both combined!! The other's will be out as per usual - I will have a good look at the trees and if they are looking dodgy I will rug up and move my 2 and my friend's pony to the other field which is empty of trees likely to fall down!! Plenty of grass to keep them happy too.
 
Mine are at home with me and so will be able to keep an eye on them but they will stay out, we do have some very big trees but I think they will be better off out. Also a few years ago in a storm we lost the roof of our stables and I wouldn't want them to be in if that happened again.
 
Now that the warning has been switched to red and being in Kent I think I am going to put mine out in a sheltered part of the field. There is lots of hedging but no trees, I think I will leave them out overnight as the current forcast is set to peak about 0600, I dont want to be trying to turn out in that either. Not looking forward to it at all but OH ha got extra petrol for the chainsaw so he will be out and about if needed.
 
I consideration should be whether you can get you your horse in the morning (or whether there is a friendly YO who would do the whole yard) if power lines are down on roads and hence they are shut.
Mine are at home so not relevant for me but if there was nobody living on site or YO was not horsey knowledgable then I'd be even more tempted to leave them out - at least they won't run completely out of grass and a trough should last them a good few days.
Emergancy services are gearing up to have to shut/ clear roads but if there is loads of trees/ power lines it could take all day and I'd had the boys shut in all day without food.
 
Hope you all survived the storm which never reached us in South West Wales even though it was forecast to. We had no wind at all and had a very calm if damp night.
 
We were fine it was very very wet and pretty gusty. I left the boy out with access to his stable. He actually seemed to enjoy hooning round bucking with the wind up his bum this morning !
 
I have always brought my horses in at night during the winter months and I always check the weather and if its windy I close there stable top doors but after doing that a week last Sunday I woke up to find a horror scene the 36x12 stable roof had been ripped clean off over a 30ft hedge and landed in the road. My 3 horses were in the stables and in total panic we manage to get the doors open and the horses out abd thank god they were un injured.
The stable block is 4 years old and built by a local firm and erected by them and the roof was held on by 28 4inch nails using a nail gun UP through the timbers not down now the firm want me to psy £400 to have the roof put back on.
I don't think this is right as the roof should have been fixed better and the guy said oh well they are 4 years old now what woukd you do in my situation
 
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